Pep Guardiola Oil Paint
Work in Progress
In this blog I would like to share what I have been doing lately, I love to switch from pencil drawings to oil paint, the contrast in between the two mediums, it allows me to spend all day doing art, with brakes in between. When I work on pencil drawings, it allows me to focus on shadow, paying attention where the light falls, proportion, and building a drawing skill, it always benefits anyone as a Tattoo Artist. When I’m having fun doing oil painting, it allows me to study colour value, learning colour contrast, and discovering which colours look good next to each other, allowing me to know how my tattoos will look like before I work on it.
The Portrait I’m working on, it’s a quiet large one, being so large it allows me to add as many textures and facing features as I wish. The portrait is of Pep Guardiola, the manager of Manchester City.
Why did I choose to paint Pep Guardiola? I chose to paint Pep Guardiola due to his incredible capacity to change football forever with his tactics. A lot of people say, since Pep Guardiola has been a successful manager in football, football has changed a lot. Now its more about passes and there’s no dribbling, and football is not the way it used to be. I believe everything changes, and it has an evolution, so you rather catch the wave or get left behind.
Even knowing not everyone agrees with Pep Guardiola’s approach to football, and makes him responsible for the change in the game, I still can see beauty in his way of playing, I still can see intelligence in his game play and organisation. Tactics is still a form of art in my eyes, even knowing it could look robotic from time to time, I still see the invention of tactics a form of art. I do believe football is not as free as it used to be, however, football is a lot of more a serious business as it used to be, so nowadays teams play for the result, and the philosophy is win or win.
One of the other reasons I’m working on a Pep Guardiola portrait is due to my love of Sports, I was looking for an inspiration from books, about focus and dedication, and the books recommended by google were usually from athletes, from different Sports, one of them was from Kobi Bryant “The Mamba Mentality” I’m not in to basketball as much as I’m in to football, however, the amount of inspiration that is in that book, is beneficial to whatever job you do or whatever career you want to pursuit, or if you are looking to find focus, purpose and dedication.
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